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1902 Inspector Rabbett’s Report to the Parochial Committee

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From the minutes of the Croydon Rural District Council
Volume 8
1902 to 1903
Mitcham Parochial
29th April 1902
pages 66 and 67

9. INSPECTOR RABBETTS’ REPORT.

—Inspector Rabbets reported that since the last meeting, he had paid 250 visits to premises of which, 27 were primary inspections. Four visits had been made to slaughterhouses, three to dairies and cow-sheds, and four to piggeries.

Nuisances had been abated at 1 to 4, Rosemary Cottages ; ” Nursery Cottage,” and No. 6, Nursery Road ; 17, Fountain Road ; Blume’s Factory ; 6 and 7, Manor Villas ; 3, 4, and 7, Upper Green ; and 1 to 8, Bridge Road.

The drains of 14 houses had been primarily tested, and 12 tests had been applied to drains in course of re-construction. Two patients had been removed to hospital, and two houses had been disinfected.

The nuisance arising from all accumulation of filth and stagnant water at Orchard Pit, Westfields, was being abated, and the wooden pigsty would become disused as soon as the concrete one, now being constructed, was completed.

In the 1904 street directory, Charles G. RABBETTS, sanitary inspector to Croydon rural district council, lived at 5, Harewood Villas, Harewood Road.

Trotts Yard

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Adjoining no. 10 Fountain Road, as referred to in these council minutes

From the minutes of the
Housing Committee
7th January 1969

1915. FOUNTAIN ROAD AND WESTERN ROAD, MITCHAM

– Acquisition of houses and land

— The Town Clerk submitted the District Valuer’s report on the terms negotiated for the acquisition of the following houses and land included in the Borough of Mitcham (Fountain Road Area Clearance Areas Nos. 1-9) Compulsory Purchase Order, 1963:

No. 12, Fountain Road;
Nos. 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40, Western Road:
Trotts Yard adjoining No. 10, Fountain Road.

– Recommended — That, subject to the Finance Committee making the necessary financial provision, the terms provisionally agreed by the District Valuer be approved and that the houses and land in question be acquired in accordance therewith.

Source: Minutes of Proceedings of the Council and committees, London Borough of Merton, Volume 5 1968-69, page 1199

Minutes of meetings held by the London Borough of Merton are available on request from the Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.